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Opera Mini translated into over 50 languages; 15 more to come later this month.
The newly released Opera Mini 4 has been translated into over 50 languages, with an additional 15 to come later this month.
This is a big step for us, as we move toward bringing Opera Mini and more importantly the Web to developing nations, where the mobile Web is for many the only option. Many people in these developing countries don’t have the luxury of a PC, let alone networked Internet connectivity. A mobile phone with internet access, on the other hand, is a more affordable option.
According to internal Opera Mini usage statistics, Opera Mini is very popular in countries with low PC penetration but high mobile phone penetration, such as South Africa and Bangladesh.
Here are the languages that we’ve already translated:
Afrikaans, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese/cn, Chinese/tw, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English/GB, Estonian, Finnish, French, French/CA, Frisian, Georgian, German, Greek, Modern (1453- ), Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian/nb, Norwegian/nn, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese/BR, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish/ES, Spanish/LA, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
Later this month we hope to have Opera Mini translated to these additional 15 languages:
Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Chinese, Farsi (Persian), Gallegan, Hausa, Igbo, Kazakh, Sesotho, Swahili, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu.
Opera is truly on a mission to bring the Web everywhere.
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